Poems (Marianne Moore)/REINFORCEMENTS
REINFORCEMENTS
The vestibule to experience is not to be exalted into epic grandeur. These men are going to their work with this idea, advancing like a school of fish through
still water—waiting to change the course or dismiss the idea of movement, till forced to. The words of the Greeks ring in our ears, but they are vain in comparison with a sight like this,
The pulse of intention does not move so that one can see it, and moral machinery is not labelled, but the future of time is determined by the power of volition.